Friday, April 18, 2008

somewhere

somehwere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

e.e.cummings

6 comments:

  1. lovely poem rosemary, thank-you. mrs t xxx

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  2. "Maybe I'm brainless
    Maybe I'm wise
    But you've got me seeing
    Through different eyes"

    Your poetry always touches me, so I have to try to write or quote verse myself! My goal is that someday you can quote my work on a Friday! lol  hugs, xoxsarah

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  3. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing hon! (Hugs) Indigo

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  4. eyyyyyyyyyyyyy HOW YOU DOOIN?

    FUGGETABOUTIT!

    Thought I would stop by and leave you a comment Back!

    -- Christopher

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  5. Powerful, when judging power by its effects. ~Mary

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  6. lovely poem, thanks for sharing, mrs t xx

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